In Iran, two journalists, Nilofar Hamidi and Elaha Mohammadi, who wrote about the death of Mahsa Amini, were sentenced to seven and six years in prison, respectively. This was reported by the human rights organization Hengaw. According to them, KhamMaykhan journalist Hamidi was convicted on several counts.

Five days after the attack on Al-Ahly hospital in the Gaza Strip, which killed several hundred people, Hamas has yet to provide evidence that it was Israeli responsibility. about this writes The New York Times . The militants told reporters that the missile had "dissolved like salt in water" so they could not show the remaining parts of it to the public. On the evening of October 17, the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health reported an attack on Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital and blamed Israel for it.

In Yekaterinburg, many gas stations of the Lukoil network experienced a gasoline shortage. this with reference to readers. reports The local portal E1.ru “I drove around half the city, the hoses were rewound everywhere. There is neither 92nd, nor 95th, nor 100th,” said one of the publication’s subscribers. Another reader reported that he found a gas station that had fuel, but only diesel. The press service of Lukoil E1.ru refused to comment on the situation.

Almost half of Russians are not paid enough to meet basic life needs. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the online recruiting platform hh.ru, published by RBC. Thus, 45% of respondents said that the salary at their main place of work is enough to live on. Moreover, over the past two years, the number of such people has almost doubled - in 2021, 25% of respondents admitted this.

Mamut Useinov, a finalist of the show “Sing a Star” on Channel One, who was detained during a raid on a mosque in Kotelniki, was sent to a military unit. This was reported by the Astra telegram channel, citing Useinov’s representative. “He has already been delivered to military unit 19612 in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region. They forcibly put me on a bus and took me away,” said the interlocutor of the telegram channel. He added that Useinov’s phone was taken away.

The administration of American President Joe Biden is asking the Israeli authorities to postpone the start of the ground operation against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. According to Washington, this is necessary to gain time for the release of hostages and the delivery of humanitarian aid. about this , citing sources among American officials.

A criminal case was opened against politician Dmitry Gudkov for “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). this He reported on his Telegram channel.

The Ukrainian Security Service organized the murders of the daughter of Russian philosopher and war supporter Daria Dugina and pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, The Washington Post claims , citing sources. The publication's journalists spoke with several dozen former and current employees of American and Ukrainian intelligence services.

Turkish authorities “politely asked” one of the Hamas leaders, Ismail Haniyeh, to leave the country after the group’s militants invaded Israel. This was reported by Al Monitor. According to journalists, Haniya lives in two countries: Qatar and Turkey. Recently he was in Istanbul.

The Rostov morgue every day accepts hundreds of soldiers who died in Ukraine. There are so many bodies that they are lost and confused The bodies of most Russian military who died in the war in Ukraine fall into the morgue at the Rostov-on-Don military-clinical hospital.

The Krasnogorsk District Court of Kamensk-Uralsky sentenced two men who attacked a girl because of her blue hair to real terms. this The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region reports . The names of those convicted are not disclosed. It is known that the 32-year-old defendant was sentenced to three years in a maximum security colony, and the 30-year-old defendant was sentenced to three years and two months.

Several dozen cultural figures, including director Alfonso Cuaron, actresses Cate Blanchett and Kristen Stewart, as well as actors Channing Tatum and Joaquin Phoenix, wrote an open letter to Joe Biden asking him to help end the war in the Middle East. “We stand as witnesses to the enormous loss of life and other horrors occurring in Israel and Palestine.

British intelligence agencies concluded that the explosion at Al Ahly Hospital was caused by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told MPs about this, The Guardian reports . Sunak criticized the media, which in the first moments after the explosion wrote that the Israeli army carried out a rocket attack on the hospital.

Hundreds of Nepalese, in search of work, went to fight in Ukraine, both on the Russian and Ukrainian sides. about this The New York Times writes , citing Nepalese officials and relatives of men who left to fight. Thus, the publication publishes the story of 30-year-old laboratory assistant Sandeep Tapalia. When Russia invaded Ukraine, he lost his job and was actively looking for a new one.

A video has appeared online from a camera installed in the official car of police officers who did not intervene in the fight that ended in the murder of UrFU foreign graduate student Francois Njelassili. The footage was published by the local portal E1.ru. The video is almost three minutes long.